Plasma-Induced Surface Functionalization of Polymeric Biomaterials in Ammonia Plasma

Influence of Plasma Treatments on the Hemocompatibility of PET and PET + TiO2 Films

“…Due to these effects, the plasma processing may be used to improve the biocompatibility and the hemocompatibility, or as a preliminary treatment in many other techniques of immobilization of biological active molecules (enzymes, drugs etc.) onto the polymeric substrates [5,6].…”

Impact of thermal treatment versus cold atmospheric plasma processing on the techno-functional protein properties from Pisum sativum ‘Salamanca’

“…For producing high quality consumables, intermediates and end products in powder or bulk form, efficient and high-performance processes are at least as important as the use of high-grade raw materials (Cuq et al, 2011). Surface modification using cold atmospheric pressure plasma (CAPP) is an effective and economical technique for many materials and of growing interests in food engineering, as it is quite difficult to design granular and powder products fulfilling both needs, adequate bulk properties followed by a special treatment to modify the surface properties (Chu et al, 2002;Förch et al, 2004;Höcker, 2002;Schröder et al, 2001). The surface-effects, such as plasma sputtering and etching, induced by applying CAPP to foodstuffs, may offer an innovative approach to enhance the surface and techno-functional properties selectively while the bulk attributes of the materials remain unchanged (Fricke et al, 2012(Fricke et al, , 2011Schröder et al, 2001).…”

Low Pressure Radio Frequency Ammonia Plasma Surface Modification on Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Films and Fibers: Effect of the Polymer Forming Process

“…Furthermore, plasma treatments enable the modification of the first atomic layers of the surface without changing the bulk properties of the material [2,6,8,15,16]. Moreover, depending on the plasma gaseous environments and experimental parameters, surface modification can be modulated to privilege etching (degradation of polymeric chains) or/and surface functionalisation [1,2,14,15,[17][18][19][20][21]. For example, Inagaki et al performed plasma surface modification experiments on PET using either O 2 , H 2 , N 2 , Ar, or NH 3 and demonstrated that the etching rate was strongly dependent upon the gas used [1].…”